Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-02-15
transactions In the New Crop.
Harry c. Moore bought about 50, 900 .,

ir TOBACCO circles except that there are early
in the morning more strange men on the
streets dressed in long heavy overcosts, rub
ber boots and fur caps hurrylng along to.
wards the livery stables and In the evening
there are greater number OF very muddy
horses and boegies seen coming slowly in
from the country in charge OF strang gers whose
long overcoats and rubber boots are q trias
more soiled than they were in the morning.
1ithese gentlemen are asked how the 10.
bacco market is getting on, they are spt to
say they do not know; they think there Is
nothing in new tobacco as for themselves
they haven't bought . pound indeed, the
cropis not worth much IL full Of white
vein and dead leaf, which Is q grea, pity, a.
they would like to buy, II the crop was
worth anything.
Some OF the buyers profess 10 believe that
the newspapers have ruined the tobacco
trade, by publishing every sale they can get
hold OF, and giving the prices paid them,
thus keeping the farmers posted a. to what
10 going on and inducing them to hold out
for unreasonsbly high prices.
some farmers on the other hand com plain
that the buyers are banded together with q
view OF buying the crop st their own figures,
and 50 low as not TO afford living profit to
the grower. They think The newspsp pers are
very remiss Ia not exposing the 'com bine'
OF the buyers as being q monopoly ss bad az
the Standard Oil company.
"Dont talk to me about the hon es,y OF to
bscco buyers said an old farmer, "I'ys been
growing tobacco for twenty. i've years, and II
The buyers are TO be believed every crop has
been bad TIL they got hold OF 1t, and after
they got it 1t was the best crop they had ever
ouSn. JUS SEQ nov they are running after
the iittle that remains OF the old crops that
'hey ns,. gave suca olacS eye few years ago"
tobacco growers of Iancss,er conntv ,, sai,
a .h,auS Ion, 5aaIo- "a - sou
oonn,. .n, % sha.ss- - my eau uouo.e-ois-
So"1' 'Io sua' pes. ueaiefs from new YORK,
fore they know what il the matter with
them. No, haven't bought q pound of The
1856 crop, and womb
Tbo fnIIow,,o s.Ias -, ,
,.,a hsen ,naaa g., M, u rear 'ooaeco
nave peen ihade In NJ Neto and vicinity {:
VIM. Pegan, i acre atI2, 8, ., to McAllistsr !;
Jas. Cresmer, acre to same at Sc through
Jos Walton, IL acres to same for 10 2 0
Campbell 10 same for 70 oso,. Crs.
0 acrss for "a, ,h.a,,.t =, "a .ieauer,
lot Of seed leaf to MeIipser for sac .bronUS ,oa
Nc Havana has yet been sold. Frank Pent.
large has bought about 500 cases of seed leaf
for New York and California parties,
The New yo,k M.rk..
The J,t,,. r.,
49, oo"'"u' ai'er nouclng the
week past saws: ~"
The transactions In old ,ob.o,os ha,,o ,,,.
extraordinarily large this wseL trna J',a
chases will, in ali probsbiiitv nn, az po
OF s. OC0 cases, one prominsn, Wstsr s,roa; roa;
house having bought near 2 oo1 cases ~
which !, 900 were of ist s,sss c,oU ,h tases, OF
tngs Of a country packer. In ali rhs.o 800
actions the prices are now being kent viaor.
ously private; and very properly no. Old
tooaccos are now an article OF market evolu.